CEO Comps are Broken
20VC with Harry Stebbingsยท2025-08-08 05:00
The other problem with comp, the way it works behind the scenes is, you know, HubSpot's got a compensation committee. Everyone's got a compensation committee and HubSpot wants to pay the CEO, let's say, at the 75th percentile of what her peers make. And so we look at 20 different peers of similar size companies at lasting blah blah blah blah.We peg her at that 75th percentile, which in her case is, you know, it's 20 million bucks, a lot of money. Now, if you did that for Dylan, which would be in our comp gr ...